performance thus achieved, judged in relation to the plant base used, reflects the productivity of HR. Such a productivity level …

Compares and contrasts the competitive priorities (manufacturing capabilities) of high‐ and low‐productivity firms … productivity subsets, one of which is that better performing firms are the more likely to address multiple capabilities … simultaneously; another is that these firms appear to have the more clearly defined competitive strategies. The high‐productivity …

The future trends with respect to globalisation, customer orientation, process orientation, and high productivity have … led to increased focus on productivity and enterprise competitiveness. In order to improve competitiveness, it is …

Existing measures of productivity were designed to measure productivity in industries in which both input and output … are tangible standardised quantities. They are inadequate for productivity measurement of professional services, where … measurement of productivity of professional service firms and to propose a more adequate measure of productivity in these …

Japan's superior quality and high growth rate of productivity. Just‐In‐Time (JIT) is one of the best known Japanese … production system requires many changes in the organisation; yet successful implementation results in improved productivity and …

corporate productivity are a flexible sense of involvement in duties, an enterprising forwardness in doing these duties and …

Concern for the productivity of employees in service operations combined with the difficulty of managerial control …

This article discusses current productivity improvement issues facing organisations in the UK and elsewhere. A brief … international perspective is then outlined using examples of successful productivity organisations, productivity campaigns and … company productivity improvement programmes taking place outside the UK. The article refocuses on the UK by reporting the …

Critical analysis of previously developed white‐collar productivity management techniques focuses on the existing … development of a more suitable productivity management methodology. A systematic procedure is described for the measurement and … evaluation of white‐collar productivity for an individual, a group of individuals or a department. The recommended measures, viz …